Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-14
FALLS TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, MAY IA, 1887.
RAILROAD PROGRESS.
The Colorado Midland Prospecting at
Butte-The Montana Central
Going 10 Anaconda.

Gong TO
The Butte s. Bozeman railroad company
has fled its articles of incorporation. Its
name indicates its purpose, and itspurpose
is the resulted d business necessity. All
railroads in Montana, says the Butte Inter
.Hounta5n. will lead to Butte. The Mon
a Central will make Butte its final ter
minus. The Boulder branch of the North
ern Pacific is hurrying in this direction.
The O. r. 81 n. is headed this way, and
will nc stop short of Butte. The Utah d
Northern is to be changed toa broad gauge
to accommodate the increasing traffic to
and from Butte. Only last week an agent
of the Colorado Midland was On a secret
mission to Butte, and it is certain ther road
will eventually reach here in the hope
of capturing a portion of the Butte busi-
ness. There is no doubt that the necessi-
ties of the situation will %compelthe North
ern Pacific to build from some point in the
Gallatin valley, via Butte, Anaconda and
Deer Lodge. The extra cost OF the Null
Ian tunnel haul is q constant drain on the
company's exchequer, and we predict the
early abandonment of that section OF the
road for main line purposes. And now
ome the Butte & Bozeman Company
with a local enterprise which cannot fail
of success. Butte is destined to become
the chief railroad center of the northwest
1t is already the greatest railroad feeder
between the Mississippi and the Pacific
coast. Its freight business is greater than
that of all the rest Of. Montana combined
In two years there viii be 10000 busy
people here.
TIE MONTANA CENTRAL AHEAD.
The Anaconda Reeieso a y that n. G.
Raw. who now has charge of the Interests
of the Montana Central in Butte, has re-
turned from short trip to Helena. He
reports that everything is progressing
smoothly so far as the Montana Central is
concerned. In regard TO the prospect of
building that road into Anaconda, Mr..
Raw said that he had already filed a loca-
ton through the Silver Bow canyon. This
right is good and the work now be
ing done by the Montana Union company
will be worthless if it conflicts at all with
the location fled by the Montana Central.
In this light the recent frantic attempts of
the Montana Union officers to get to break,
ing ground first in the Silver Bow canyon
seem rather ridiculous. The Montana
Central has picked out its route through
the Silver Bow canyon at its leisure, and
has fulfilled the requirements of. law by
recording the location. The route that
they have filed is as much their own as
though the line was constructed, and no
company has the right to throw a shovel
full Of dirt on the location. The published
swash in regard to this matter only serves
to illustrate the guileless dispositions OF
Butte reporters.
Mr.. Raw was asked the direct question
as to whether the Montana Central had Ia
ken any action in regard to the building
of a line from here to Philipsburg. He
replied that that was what he had been do
ing in Helena. When he heard of the
advent Of Mr.. Rogers party of Union Pa
ciic engineers in this country, Mr.. Ray at
once surnised that the Union Pacific was
aiming at Phi1ipsburg. He accordingly
cot out a hand bill announcing that he had
zone to Helena, and sent a copy around to
President Dana. The old gentleman re-
marked that he hoped he would have a
pleasant time and thought no more of the
matter, Mr.. Ray came down to Anaconda
with a party of eight surveyors and in the
next six DAYS had located a line to Philips
burg for the Montana Central by the way
of Silver Lake and the Flint Creek can
Won. This is the only practicable route
from here to Philipsburg and the canyon
mentioned can only be utilized for one
road. This practically e~xcludesthe Union
Pacific from P~hilipsburg. Mr.. Ray came
back from the upper country on Saturday
and resumed his trip to Helena. Yester-
day he fled the location with the secretary
of the territory and the line is now secure
to the Montana Central.
LOCAL CAPITALISTS DOING IT.
The Helena Independent states that the
branch roads of the Northern Pacific are
being built by Montana capitalists, such
as s.. T. Hauser, a. NJ. Hotter, Henry
Klein, FL. M. Parchen, 3. L. Bonner, Al
bert Kleinschmidt, John T. Murphy, III.
D. Hauser. T.C. Power and John G. Cur
tin. They not merely, it says, put up the
money for these enormous enterprises, but
thew do it under contract to wait for its
repayment to them from the gross freights
created BY the building and operation Of
these roads. The Independent further
saws that the above named capitalists have
invested 81, 100000 in mines and works
near the termini of the roads. thus produc-
ing freight and passenger traffic. The